Sadio Mane claims Liverpool team-mates copy HIS celebrations

Roberto Firmino's famous kung fu kick celebration was created by Sadio Mane... and the Brazilian isn't the only Liverpool player to copy the Senegalese forward.

Mane claims that Firmino and their former team-mate Philippe Coutinho have both copied his celebrations in the past.

It has long been thought that Mane has just been repeating what his team-mates have done after scoring, but his revelation will shock many Reds.

'The fans deserve to know the truth,' he told Copa90. 'Firmino copies me, not me copying him!

'The kick was me. We try it in training. He scored and I was behind him, and he did it.

'The dance with Philippe and Bobby was mine too!'

Firmino brought out the capoeira inspired kung fu kick celebration against Porto, a game in which Mane scored a hat-trick.

As the Brazilian wows the crowd with his technique, Mane just comes into shot at the end doing his own, less than stellar version, of the routine.

Mane joined in when Firmino and Coutinho would celebrate goals with dances in the past, most notably against West Brom and Crystal Palace in 2016.

And in an away win at Swansea that year he mimicked Firmino's machine-gun celebration.